Segments: Welcome by Wendy Hanamura Mitchell Baker - Mozilla Project Leader Keynote Address: Vint Cerf - Chief Internet Evangelist for Google
The Internet Archive has started the process of preserving the WWW but there is an opportunity to refine the design of WWW to create a self-archiving, distributed system. I hope to explore some of the desirable properties of such a self-archiving system from the technical perspective but feel compelled to consider business models that make the process sustainable and affordable. This is clearly more than just a technical problem. Keynote Address: Tim Berners-Lee - Inventor of the World Wide Web Movie: Kyle Drake - Neocities
A short video about how Neocities sites are bringing fun and creativity back to the Web Introduction: Brewster Kahle - Internet Archive
20 years after the World Wide Web was created, can we now make it better? How can we ensure that our most important values: privacy, free speech, and open access to knowledge are enshrined in the code itself? In a provocative call to action, entrepreneur and Open Internet advocate, Brewster Kahle, challenges us to build a better, decentralized Web based on new distributed technologies. He lays out a path to creating a new Web that is reliable, private, but still fun—in order to lock the Web open for good. Panel: "Peer to Peer Networks": Kevin Marks (Moderator) - Indieweb, Ferros Aboukhadijeh, David Dias, Zooko Wilcox, Gavin Wood Panel: "Naming and User Identities": Chelsea Barabas (Moderator)- MIT Center For Civic Media, Christopher Allen, Muneeb Ali, Jeremy Rand, Joachim Lohkamp, Movie: Scott Draves - Electric Sheep
A short montage of artist Scott Drave's electric sheep--what your computers create while you sleep. A look at what happens when decentralized tech meets artistic genius. Keynote Address: Cory Doctorow - Author and EFF
"How Stupid Laws and Benevolent Dictators can Ruin the Decentralized Web, too". In the last twenty years, we've managed to nearly ruin one of the most functional distributed systems ever created: today's Web. There are many stakeholders being damaged in the process, from individuals to entire nations. To lock open the Web we will need more than code. We will need binding agreements and covenants that enshrine our deepest values. Cory Doctorow shares his vision of what went wrong and how we can get it right – through governance and policies – in the decentralized Web to come. Panel: "How Do We Build Our Values Into The Decentralized Web" : Amber Case (Moderator), Primavera De Filippi, Wendy Seltzer, Peter Van Garderen
It's easy as engineers to concentrate on the code and not on those we are building for. What are the values we should be trying to embed in the code? What are the principles we can agree upon about the way this Web should be governed? We hear from the perspectives of an archivist, an engineer, a researcher and an official of the W3C – to see if there is an alignment around values and the ways to express them through technology. Panel: "Security in a World of Black Hats": Ross Shulman (Moderator), Van Jacobson, Paige Peterson, Mike Perry, Brian Warner
There are many "Black Hats" on the world stage today. They have enormous resources, little government oversight, and taps into all the major fiber links. Their goal: to break the security of your code. How can the decentralized technologies represented here fend off their attacks? How would you work around the "Great Firewall of China?" How are you employing this "Black Hat" understanding into your design? We'll pose some provocative security scenarios and discuss how decentralized technologies can combat the most powerful purveyors of censorship, surveillance, and piracy on the world stage. How can builders of a new Web share scenario planning and knowledge to succeed? Movie: "Enterprise on the Web"
A look at the entrepreneurs who are using decentralized technologies to devise the next generation of apps and products Panel: "Moonshot Challenge: What Could You Do to Decentralize Scientific Journal Articles": Wendy Hanamura (Moderator), Juan Benet, Trent McConaghy, Karissa McKelvey, Denis Nazarov, Evan Schwartz
In this hands-on panel, we issue a new "moonshot" challenge: How could we take scientific journal literature--which includes code, text, and data--and make it so these articles can be stored, accessed, searched, attributed, and paid for through decentralized systems? How could current technologies work together? What design principles might further this collaboration?

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Decentralized Web Summit
Locking the Web Open
June 7‐9, 2016 | Internet Archive | San Francisco, CA
#DWebSummit

New Connections
We are bringing together a diverse group of Web architects, activists, engineers, archivists, scholars, journalists, and other stakeholders to explore the technology required to build a Decentralized Web and its impact.

Call to action
The current Web is not private or censorship-free. It lacks a memory, a way to preserve our culture’s digital record through time. The Decentralized Web aims to make the Web open, secure and free of censorship by distributing data, processing, and hosting across millions of computers around the world, with no centralized control.
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Sharing vision & Tech know-how
The Summit & meetup is a two-day event for high-level discussions among leaders from around the globe working on decentralized technologies. What decentralized applications are being built today, and what is just around the corner? Together, can we prototype the Decentralized Web and start to lock the Web open for good? Video Production & Live Streaming provided by Argus HD

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